The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 76
'Good morning,' he said; 'may I ask what is the matter?
Who acts: luck, I · What happens: say, ask, be · To what, where: matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ask | nsubj |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 matter | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 matter | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 matter | det |
| 16 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | luck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | may | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the matter | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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